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Wednesday, November 26, 2025
TopicAbhijeet Banerjee

Topic: Abhijeet Banerjee

Modi govt should spend more to support people, says Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee

India’s total spending on health has remained stagnant at around 1.5% of GDP in the last 4 years. The Modi govt is projecting an increase to 1.8% this financial year & to 2.5% by 2025.

Video messages by Abhijit Banerjee nudged Covid symptom reporting in Bengal, report says

Working paper authored by Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee and 7 others says celebrity messaging managed to get more people to report Covid symptoms, practise hygiene.

Duflo & Banerjee say NRC-CAA ‘risky’, Naushad Forbes tells industry, speak truth to power

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

The data NCRB left out, and Fadnavis & Khattar play a game they’re bound to win

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Hegde’s dig at ‘NYAY proponent’, Kapil Sibal’s advice to Modi and Khattar on his hobby

The most politically correct and incorrect tweets of the day from across the political spectrum.

Nobel for Abhijit Banerjee and co shows how Economics as a discipline is changing

The 2019 Economics Nobel prize winners are 3 "poverty fighters" who defy the notion that economists are merely upholders of the free market.

On Camera

Rajnath Singh is discovering India-Pakistan civilisational ties

Even as India, Pakistan have seemed on the edge of war, their intelligence services have often sought to find space to de-escalate tensions and reduce risks for the two countries.

Chhattisgarh pitches state as hub for ‘specialty steel’, nets investment plans of Rs 6,321 crore

Speaking at 2nd Investor Connect, CM Vishnu Deo Sai says 'we have been able to attract a lot of investors.' The focus of the event was the steel sector. 

India eyes more S-400s with upcoming Putin visit, Su-57 likely to stay off radar

Not only did S-400 record its longest hit during India-Pakistan 88-hour conflict, ability of the system to shoot and scoot in a short time, which allows it to evade enemy fire, was also proved.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.